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Skunk Works Digest Monday, 11 January 1993 Volume 02 : Number 049
In this issue:
Re: F-117
Aurora Fuel Consumption
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From: dnadams@nyx.cs.du.edu (Dean Adams)
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 93 06:16:10 MST
Subject: Re: F-117
Pat Hayes writes:
>Uuhh...I don't think so. Since the -117 has no gun (right?),
>there'd be no "gun camera" from which to get footage.
Yea, yea! I was only using "gun camera" as a generic term. Sorry! :->
Obviously "Gun Camera" footage from an F-117 would come from FLIR/DLIR
imagery. BUT, DoD already released some of this way back during the war.
The ad copy for this show sounded a bit like they had something "new",
but I suppose we'll have to wait and see. BTW, I watched several
Desert Storm TV pool feeds on the F-117 operations, and I never saw
any actual cockpit views. About the closest thing they showed was
pilots returning from missions and climbing *out* of the cockpit.
There was also one fairly long piece showing the bombs being preped
and loaded on an F-117...
- -dean
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From: gt6745b@prism.gatech.edu
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 93 16:34:43 EST
Subject: Aurora Fuel Consumption
Someone asked about how the Aurora could have the range and the speed it
reportedly does and not have a substantial increase in size over the SR-71.
I talked with a good friend at United Technologies/Pratt & Whitney about
the possibilities. He wasn't allowed to say much and couldn't really confirm
anything. Mostly he said they were given numbers to calculate and tests to
run without really knowing what project they were for. He was able to say
that some of the numbers he did crunch could possibly give the performance
and fuel consumption needed for a given volume. He said he's also noticed
that there is one test range in West Palm Beach, Fla. that is VERY restricted
and there have been some rather large "ground-shaking tests" much different
from Shuttle/rocket engine tests and far more powerful than current F100-PW-
229 and F119-PW100 engine tests.
Please understand that this is all based on what one engineer has
heard at West Palm Test Facility and has no official knowledge of any
hypersonic capable engine undergoing tests.
-Michael
Michael David Knight gt6745b@prism.gatech.edu * COMBAT AIRCRAFT: A mix of *
Georgia Institute of Technology * sharp teeth, cold steel, *
Atlanta, Georgia 30332 * cosmic warlords, and evil *
Aerospace Engineering (404)676-0520 * spirits. *
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